Friday 4:30–6:00 PM

257 ACA Room 307
PUBLISH & THRIVE
Chair: Michael T. Marsden, Journal of Popular Film & Television.
Popular Culture Review. Felicia Campbell.
Popular Music and Society. Gary Burns.
Film and History, Peter Rollins

258 PCA Room 308
BUSINESS/CORPORATE CULTURE: Culture & Business in Industrial America
Chair: TBA
“Empire and Progress: Promoting the Southern Route of the Trans-continental Railroad.” Nathaniel Means, History, U of Southern Missis-sippi, Hattiesburg, MS.
“Mixing Business and Religion: The Beet Sugar Industry and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1889-1921.” Matthew Godfrey, History, Washington State U, Pullman, WA 99163.
“‘A Scurrilous, Vicious, and Libelous Book’: How to Squash a Tell-All.” Simone Weil Davis, English, Long Island, C.W. Post, Brookville, NY 11548.

259 PCA Room 309
SPORTS: Urban
Chair: Andrew Suozzo, Modern Lang., DePaul U, Chicago, IL 60614.
“Harlem on My Mind: Sports’ Role in the Harlem Renaissance.” Jack Moore, English, U of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620.
“Talk about Buildings: The Decline of the Astrodome.” Susan Opt, 3007 N. Ben Wilson, U of Houston, Victoria, TX 77901.
“Teaching and Coaching: Are They the Same?” Pam Tyabur, Comm., Northern Kentucky U, Highland Heights, KY 41099.
“The Chicago Marathon and Urban Renaissance.” Andrew Suozzo.

260 PCA Room 310
SERIES BOOKS: The 1930s & 1940s
Chair: Kathleen Chamberlain, Emory & Henry College, Abingdon, VA 24210.
“Wyckoff’s Mystery Hunhters: Sleuthing in the Great Outdoors.” Frank W. Quillen, 846 Lamont St., Kingsport, TN 37664.
“A Keen Eye for Murder: Percy Keese Fitzhugh’s Hal Keen Juvenile Mystery Series.” Henri Achee.
“Danger Is My Duty: War and Womanhood in the ‘Fighters for Freedom’ Series, 1941-1945.” Mary Linehan, History, Spalding U, Louisville, KY 40203.
“Series Books for Catholic Girls.” Kathleen Chamberlain.

261 ACA/PCA Room 401
GRADUATE STUDENT FORUM: Landing a Job at a Small Liberal Arts College
Chair: Marty Knepper, English, Morningside College, Sioux City, IA 51103.

262 PCA Room 402
HEALTH & DISEASE: The Social Roles of Health Care Institutions and the Mass Media
Chair: Simon J. Craddock Lee, San Francisco/Berkeley Medical Anthropology, U of California, San Francisco, CA 94122.
“Selling Wellness: Marketing Health Care Services and Facilities in Contemporary American Culture.” Mike Walker, Kobenhavns Uni-versitet, Juridiske Fakultet (U of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law) and The Savannah College of Arts & Design, Savannah, GA 31401; and M. Cheryl Adoni, Faculty of Medicine, U of Milan.
“Mental Health and the Mass Media.” Nicholas Carson, Psychiatry, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19146.
“Caring for the Secular Spirit: Catholic Health Care in a Culture of Liberal Modernity.” Simon J. Craddock Lee.

263 PCA Room 403
JOURNALISM: Knowledge & Opinion
Chair: Steve Barkin, Journalism, U of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
“The Journalist as Jerk.” W.J. McLaughlin, Comm., Quinnipiac U, Hamden, CT 06158.
“The Narrowing Knowledge Base of the New York Times’ Sunday Cross-word.” Joseph Bernt and Phyllis Bernt, Ohio U, Athens, OH 45701.
“The Power of Positive Imaging: Ebony Magazine and the Politics of Respectability, 1945-1946.” Stephanie Harry, History, U of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
“The Advocacy of Dorothy Thompson.” William N. Denman, Marshall U, Huntington, WV 25755.

264 PCA Room 404
LIBRARIES: Research & Access to “Scorned Literature”
Chair: Allen Ellis, Steely Library, Northern Kentucky U, Highland Heights, KY 41099.
“Gum Shoes in the Jungle: Scholars and Pulps on the Web.” Jan Zauha, The Libraries, Montana State U, Bozeman, MT 59717.
“Supermarket Tabloids in Libraries and Research Collections: Can They Be Found?” Lisa Walker, The Libraries, Montana State U, Bozeman, MT 59717.
“Trash or Garbage? Comic Books in Library Literature, 1940s-1960s.” Allen Ellis.
“About Face: Comic Books in Library Literature, 1970-1990s.” Doug Highsmith, University Library, California State U, Hayward, CA 94542.

265 Room 405
CIVIL WAR: Memories of Generals & Privates
Chair: Clarence Hooker, ATL, Michigan State U, East Lansing, MI 48824.
“Generals on Vacation, Remembering the Civil War at American Mineral Springs Resorts.” Tom Chambers, History, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866.
“Burning Columbia Again: Sherman and Hampton Battle It Out after the War.” Kathleen Gorman, History, Minnesota State U.
“‘They Washed the Blood Scars of Slavery out of the American Flag’: Black Veterans and Civil War Memory.” Donald Shaffer, History, U of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639.
“Sam Davis and the Valorization of Confederate Memory in Tennessee.” Edward Harcourt, History, Vanderbilt U, Nashville, TN 37235.

266 PCA Room 406
BORDER CULTURE
Chair: Ray B. Browne, Popular Culture Association, Bowling Green State U, Bowling Green, OH 43403.
“Secessionism in the Modern Age: The Curious Move to Reinstate Borders.” Mark D. West, Mass Comm., U of North Carolina, Asheville, NC 28804.
“Time and Border Crossings: Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.” Owen Gilman, English, St. Joseph’s U, Philadelphia, PA 19131.
“The Role of Heroes, Symbols, and Icons in Border Changes.” Ray B. Browne.

267 PCA Room 407
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women’s Studies & Biography
Chair: Christine Kleinegger, Senior Historian, New York State Museum, Albany, NY 12230.
“What We’re Writing for: 18th-Century Women’s Literary History and the Uses of Biography.” Elisabeth Ellington, English, Brandeis U, Waltham, MA 02254.
“Re-presenting Dorothy Dandridge: Biography, Image, and the Cultural Politics of Stardom.” Amy Howard, American Studies, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187.
“Biography, Thanatography, and the Media Coverage of Karla Faye Tucker.” Karen Beckman, English, Princeton U, Princeton, NJ 08544.
“Mixed Messages: Juvenile Biographies of Famous Women, 1945-1962.” Christine Kleinegger.

268 PCA Room 408
EROS, PORNOGRAPHY, & POPULAR CULTURE
Chair: William E. Brigman, Social Sciences, U of Houston, Houston, TX 77002.
“Deep Throat’s Direct Experience: The Art of Zen and Pornography.” Jason Sperb, 1112 Division St., Apt. #1, Charleston, IL 61920.
“Rumination on the Birth of Striptease and Its Inevitability.” Charles McCaghy, Sociology, Bowling Green State U, Bowling Green, OH 43403.
“Porn Videos from Hungary: The European Market.” Katalin Milter, School of Telecomm., Ohio U, Athens, OH 45701.
“An Intimacy We all Share: Pornography and Mass Culture in Antebellum America.” Mike Millner, English, U of Virginia, Charlottes-ville, VA 22903.

269 PCA Room 409
NON-FICTION WRITING: Linguistic & Narrative Exceptions
Chair: Dan R. Jones, U of Houston, Houston, TX 77002.
“It’s Not English: Straining at the Borders of a Language.” Michael R. Dressman, U of Houston, Houston, TX 77002.
“Power and Lunacy: Earl Long, The New Yorker, and A.J. Liebling.” Philip D. Castille, Eastern Washington U, Cheney, WA 99004.
“Under the Umbrella of Suspicion: Persuasion Strategies in the Texts of John and Patsy Ramsey and O.J. Simpson.” Dennis Russell, Arizona State U, Tempe, AZ 85287.
“What Makes a Storm Perfect? Non-Fiction Accounts of Weather Disasters.” Dan R. Jones.

270 PCA Room 410
WESTERN: Genreblending
Chair: Ray Merlock, Comm., U of South Carolina, Spartanburg, SC 29303.
“Cowboy Politicians: Film Images of Public Officials from 1920-1962.” Phillip Loy, Political Science, Taylor U, Upland, IN 45989.
“Rebels with a Cause: Juvenile Delinquents in Some ’50’s Westerns.” Jack Nachbar, Chapman Learning Center, Bowling Green State U, Bowling Green, OH 43402.
“‘Warning! The Queen Is in Danger.’ Gene Autry’s The Phantom Empire (1935) and George Lucas’s The Phantom Menace (1999).” Ray Merlock.

271 PCA Room 411
RADIO: Crosses Boundaries of Nations through Its Programming
Chair: Marion Coomey, Radio & TV Arts, Ryerson Polytechnic U, Toronto M5B 2K3, Ontario, Canada.
“Student Produced Internet Radio Interactive Technologies.” Mark Banbury, Radio & TV Arts, Ryerson Polytechnic U, Toronto M5B 2K3, Ontario, Canada.
“Current Practice and Future Opportunities in Internet Radio.” Bruce Berryman, Comm. & Media, Royal Melbourne Inst. of Tech., Mel-bourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.
“Radio in the Global Age.” David Hendy, Comm. & Creative Industries, U of Westminster, Northwick Park, Harrow HA1 3TP, United Kingdom.
“Three Countries, One Community: How Internet Radio Crosses Boundaries in the Production of Programming.” Marion Coomey.

272 PCA Room 412
HUMOR IN AMERICAN SOCIETY
Chair: Stephen Hall, Sociology/Social Work, Appalachian State U, Boone, NC 28608.
“Donehey’s Plain Dealing: Cleveland Editorial Cartoons 1901-1930.” Judith Yaross Lee, Interpersonal Comm., Ohio U, Athens, OH 45701.
“Locating an Animated Space for Satire on American Television: The Simpsons, Daria, and King of the Hill.” John P. Shields, Comm., Norwalk Comm. College, Norwalk, CT.
“Five Minutes Fame: Standup Comedy, an Ethnography.” Christopher Barnes, Popular Culture, BGSU, Bowling Green, OH 43403.
“Hilarious Horror in American Popular Culture, World War II to Present.” John A. Dowell, ATL, Michigan State U, East Lansing, MI 48821.
Discussant: Larry Keeter, Sociology & Social Work, Appalachian State U, Boone, NC 28608.

273 PCA Room 413
CULTURAL CONFLICT & WOMEN: Comedy, Tragedy, & Adver-tising
Chair: Amanda Hoffman, 6100 Tyler Dr., Harrisburg, PA 17112.
“Humoring Her Way Out: The Comic in Amy Tan.” Wenxin Li, English Language Studies, SUNY, Old Westbury, NY 11568.
“The ‘Tragedy’ of Women.” Perri Brown, 1032 Memory Lane, Me-chanicsburg, PA 17050.
“Advertising and Gender Roles in American Culture.” Ronald P. Stegall, PO Box 394, Campbelltown, PA 17010.

274 ACA Room 414
MUSIC
Chair: Howard A. Doughty, Applied Arts & Health Sciences, Seneca College, King City, Ontario L7B 1B3, Canada.
“Alice Cooper and His Disciples: Shock-Rock Strategies Past and Present.” Dan Zimny, 220 E. Hillcrest, #5130, DeKalb, IL 60115.
“Changing Recording Artist Image and Album Cover Design.” Kenneth G. Bielen, 1469 Conneaut Ave., Bowling Green, OH 43402.
“Small Mobile Intelligent Units: The Indies’ War against the Dinosaurs.” Sarah Metivier, Comm., Northern Illinois U, DeKalb, IL 60115.
“A Cynical Theory of Censorship: From Diogenes and Plato to Frank Zappa and Tipper Gore.” Howard A. Doughty.

275 PCA Room 415
TRAVEL: IN A POSTCOLONIAL WORLD
Chair: Joe Eaton, History, St. Gregory’s U, Shawnee, OK 74804.
“Not Quite/Not White: Colonial Mimicry in Postcolonial Travel Writing.” Pallavi Rastogi, Tufts U.
“White Tourism: Plantation Homes and Competing Constructions of Whiteness.” Jennifer Eichstedt, 929 Myrtle Ave., Big Bear City, CA 92314.
“Discursive and Cultural Encounters: Edith Wharton’s In Morocco.” Sadik Rddad, Rue Ibn Hazem, 4, Imm. 42, L’Habitat, Dokkarat, Fez, Morocco.
“A New Albion: European Travellers and the British Prairie, Edward County, Illinois, 1817-1825.” Joe Eaton.

276 Salon A
AREA CHAIRS’ MEETING
Pat Browne
Area chairs are encouraged to attend.

277 Salon B
TBA

278 PCA Salon C
VIETNAM: Symbolic Memories
Chair: Kim Heikkila, American Studies, U of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455.
“Citizen Jane: The Vietnam Women’s Memorial and U.S. Popular Memory.” Kim Heikkila.
“Symbols of Pride and the War That Won’t End, Part VI (special slide presentation).” Paul Daum, New England College, Henniker, NH 03242.
Business meeting immediately following the session.

279 PCA Salon D
AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE: “Acting Black,” “Acting White”: Empirical Analyses of the Dramaturgy of Race
Chair: Sonja Peterson Lewis, African-American Studies, Temple U, Philadelphia, PA 19122.
“‘Acting Black’: Perceptions of the Domain of Blackness.” Lisa Brat-ton, 1100 S. Broad, #201-C, Philadelphia, PA 19146.
“‘Acting White’: A World View Analysis of Black Teenagers’ Percep-tions of White Prerogatives and Pejoratives.” DeReef Jamison, African-American Studies, Temple U, Philadelphia, PA 19122.
“‘Acting Black,’ ‘Acting White’: A Comparative Analysis of African-American Teenagers’ Perceptions of the Academic and Behavioral Correlates of Race.” Sonja Peterson Lewis; and Letetia Coleman, Women’s Studies, Temple U, Philadelphia, PA 19122.

280 ACA Salon E
ROCK, FILM, & THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS
Chair: Anne Cheney.
“Something Rotten in Corporate Denmark: Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet.” Walter R. Coppedge, English, Virginia Commonwealth U, Richmond, VA 23284.
“Presidents in the Movies Who Are Better Than the Ones We Have.” Donna Harper, 2948 Cherry Hills, Antioch, TN 37013.
“Rock ‘Mock-u-mentaries’: The True Maturation of Rock and Roll.” Anthony Bush, 4126 Panthersville Rd., Ellenwood, GA 30294.

281 PCA Salon F
FILM: Reconstructed Film Masculinity—Wilde, Hitchcock, & Ulee’s Gold
Chair: Phillip Gentile, Radio, TV, & Film, U of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406.
“Wilde on Film: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) to Wilde (1998).” Ann Shillinglaw, 5010 N. Hermitage Ave., #2N, Chicago, IL 60640.
“Cary Grant and the Towel: Male Objectification in Alfred Hitchcock’s Films.” Michael Paulson and Jennifer McKee, English, Pennsylvania State U, University Park, PA 16802.
“Absolution and Resolution: The Confessions of Alfred Hitchcock.” George Grella, English, U of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627.
“The Success and Failure of Husbandry in Ulee’s Gold.” Phillip Gentile.

282 PCA Salon G
SF/F: Narrativity & Television Story Arcs
Chair: Robin Anne Reid, Lit. & Lang., Texas A&M U, Commerce, TX 75429.
“Watching for the Plot: Story Arcs and Innovation in The X-Files and Babylon 5.” Warren Olin-Ammentorp, English, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY 13035.
“LEXX: Arcing through Hell with the Anti-Trek.” Frank W. Oglesbee, Speech Comm., Eastern Illinois U, Charleston, IL 61920.
“Sadomasochistic Pleasure and Viewer Identification: Buffy in the ‘terrible house.’” Holly G. Barbaccia, English, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
“The Deep Structure of Deep Space Nine: Star Trek’s Borderlands (Season 2).” Robin Anne Reid.

283 PCA Salon H
TRIBUTE TO M. TOM INGE
Moderator: Amy Kiste Nyberg
“From Comics as Culture to Comics Culture.” Joseph Witek.
“On the Way to Comics Scholarship: A Long, but Bumpy and Unfinished Road.” John A. Lent.

284 PCA Salon I
LIT. & VISUAL ART: Writing Meets Painting
Chair: Eugene Saxe, English, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO 80217.
“Celia Thaxter Painterly Poet.” George J. Willauer, English, Connecticut College, New London, CT 06320.
“The Presence of the Artist in Ekphrastic Poems.” Joseph Stanton, English, U of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822.
“Embodying the Magic: Ironic Distancing in the Paintings of Remedios Varo Mirrors the Literary Art of Magical Realists.” Shelley Aley, Writing Program, James Madison U, Harrisonburg, VA 22807.
“Perhaps These Walls Do Speak: Structural Inhabitants in the Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Remedios Varo.” Beth Brunk, Writing Program, James Madison U, Harrisonburg, VA 22807.

285 PCA Salon J
EDUCATION & THE TEACHING OF POPULAR CULTURE
Chair: Seymour Leventman, Sociology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467.
“The School Corridor as a Fashion Runway: How Teen Magazines Instruct Students on ‘Being Cool’ at School.” Linda Steet, Education, SUNY, Geneseo, NY 14454.
“‘You Want to Teach What!’ Curriculum Enhancement through a Sports Course.” Mark Rubenfeld, Sociology, Loyola U, New Orleans, LA 70118.
“The High-Art Museum as a Popular Culture Phenomenon.” Dennis Hall, English, U of Louisville, KY 40292.
“Zoning of Popular Culture Performance in Urban Space.” Herman Belien, American Inst., Plantage Muidergracht 12, U of Amsterdam, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
“High Technology and Popular Culture in Post-Modern Society.” Christian Press, Sociology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467.
Respondent: Aimee Marlow, Sociology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467.
session may run past 6:00 p.m. if time is needed.

286 PCA Salon K
TELEVISION
Chair: Steve Craig, Radio, TV, & Film, U of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203.
“From Married with Children to Touched by an Angel: Politics, Economics, and the Battle Over ‘Family Values’ Television.” Steve Craig.
“Shamanic Voices: A Look at Shamanism on U.S. TV.” Lynette R. Porter, 14 Big Buck Trail, Ormond Beach, FL 32174.
“Public Interest, Democratization and National Culture: The Case of Morocco.” Mark Poindexter, Broadcast & Cinematic Arts, Central Michigan U, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859.
“A Content Analysis of Moroccan Television News: Diversity of Perspective or Redundancy?” Mostafa Sadir, Central Michigan U, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859.

287 ACA Salon L
LAW & AMERICAN CULTURE: Mixed Bag of Treats
Chair: Robert L. Felix, U of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, SC 29208.
“Abe Lincoln in Philadelphia: On the Basics of His Constitutional Principles.” George Anastaplo, Loyola Law School, Chicago, IL 60611.
“The Impact of Law, Culture, and Technology on Scholars’ Research.” Elizabeth Townsend, 11 E. Orange Grove, #2323, Tucson, AZ 85704.

288 PCA Room 501
ELIZABETHAN: The Printing Press: Imposing Order on Nature, Society & Text
Chair: Joy Wiltenburg, History, Rowan U, Glassboro, NJ 08028.
“A Measure of Uniformity: The Impact of Richard Mulcater’s Spelling Reforms on His Contemporaries.” John Adrian, English, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514.
“John Maplet’s A Greene Forest and the Encyclopedist Tradition in England.” Patrick McHenry, Lang. & Lit., Columbus State U, Colum-bus, GA 31907.
“The Governance of Health & Household: Practical Advice from the Press of Robert Wyer.” Donna A. Vinson, History, Salem State College, Salem, MA 01970.
“True Crime: The Origins of Sensationalism in Reformation Germany.” Joy Wiltenburg.

289 PCA Room 502
CLOTHING, APPEARANCE & THE BODY
Chair: Kathleen LeBesco, Comm. Arts, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY 10021.
“Marking Unity Branding and the Search for Permanence in a Plastic Society.” Christiana Grefe, Brown U, Providence, RI 02906.
“‘You’re Too Fat to Dress Like That!’ The Materialization of the Plus-Size Female Body and the Abjection of Fat within the Modern Talk/ Freak Show.” Sarah Tillery, U of Maryland, College Park, MD.
“When Women Banished the Fan.” Delia Lopez Gydosh, Ohio State U, 231 Campbell Hall, Columbus, OH 43210.
“Corpulence Commodified: Media Representations of Fatness, 1985-2000.” Kathleen LeBesco.